Reason Quotes

• What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Reason

• But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Trying
  • Matter
  • Helping

• The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Reason
  • Movies
  • Moral dilemma

• The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Woman

• You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Friends
  • Reason
  • Lifetime

• The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Reason
  • Goal

• The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Funny
  • Running
  • Reason

• For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Reason
  • Artist
  • Esteem

• You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Dark
  • Feelings
  • Impulse

• When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason. With Jesus we see how dangerous it can be to demand unconditional forgiveness. Even in the world of today, we can see how mighty powers can come apart at the seams when confronted with simple demands for peace, love, food for the poor, and amnesty for the enemies of the state.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Love
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Enough
  • Lying
  • Silent

• Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

  

  Tacitus
  • Leader
  • Judgment
  • Qualities

• The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Ideas
  • Happens
  • Next

• I've seen all of my mom's films. She's the reason why I do almost anything.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Reason
  • Films

• The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Reason
  • Successful
  • Procrastinate

• Koudelka looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" Cordelia met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Eye
  • Results
  • Mets

• I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Money
  • Reason

• People like you are the reason People like me need medication.

  

  Cheyenne McCray
  • Reason
  • Medication

• All these lacrimal events and bouts of depersonalization were no doubt leading, I was then convinced, to the onset of schizophrenia. Indeed, the irony of my recent cardiac diagnosis was that it gave me an objective reason for my emotional turbulences and so was, in that sense, stabilizing: now I was reckoning with a specific existential threat, not just the vacuum of existence.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Existence
  • Events
  • Leading

• We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Intelligent
  • Generations

• As soon as you start to get tired, as soon as you start to get behind, as soon as your coach starts yelling at you, a lot of doors open up to quit; you got to find that one reason to stay in that battle, one reason to stay in the fire and fight.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Fighting
  • Tired
  • Battle

• Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Reason
  • Sports
  • Shapes

• For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Soul
  • Night

• I’m conceited, I got a reason

  

  Remy Ma
  • Reason
  • Got
  • Conceited

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